Louisiana

Drone footage taken after Hurricane Nicholas made landfall, shows the extent of the flooding in Sargent, Texas, and Carlyss, Louisiana.

Bands of heavy rain have been pummeling parts of the Alabama Gulf Coast and the Florida Panhandle

Nicholas strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Monday as it headed toward landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast and it was expected to bring heavy rain and floods to coastal areas from Mexico to storm-battered Louisiana.

Some of the hardest-hit victims left in deadly Hurricane Ida’s wake are Louisiana residents already devastated by the pandemic.

As the Louisiana State Police reel from the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene — a case blown open this year by long-withheld video of troopers stunning, punching and dragging the Black motorist — an Associated Press investigation has revealed it is part of a pattern of violence shrouded in secrecy

Officials have raised Hurricane Ida’s death toll in Louisiana to 26

As one of the most powerful hurricanes in the nation’s history barreled into Louisiana, a pair of hospitals squarely in its path braced for the worst

More than 400,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana still don’t have power nine days after Hurricane Ida.

Louisiana health officials are revoking the licenses of seven nursing homes that were evacuated to a warehouse where residents died after Hurricane Ida amid conditions deemed squalid and unsafe.

As crews continued working to bring power to those in Louisiana without it, Gov. John Bel Edwards provided an update on Ida recovery efforts.

Officials in New Orleans say they will thoroughly inspect senior living apartments in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida after finding people living in buildings without working generators that trapped residents in wheelchairs in dark, sweltering upper floors.

One resident said she was videoing the raging storm outside when her bedroom ceiling collapsed on top of her. Now she worries another storm will come and ruin what possessions she has left.

While chefs and amateur cooks alike piled plates high with comfort food, residents with generators charged their neighbors’ cellphones and revved up chain saws to clear downed trees.

The power went out in the critical care unit. The winds were howling. But still, the staff at Thibodaux Health System in Louisiana were able to care for the coronavirus patients as Hurricane Ida damaged the state. CEO Greg Stock talks about how the hospitals held up.

Parishioners of a church outside New Orleans were surprised to find electricity had been restored overnight, allowing for an indoor service on Sunday

The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday that cleanup crews are responding to a sizable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Ida

The dismal state of power in Hurricane Ida’s wake is a distressingly familiar scenario for Entergy Corp. Louisiana’s largest electrical utility has grappled with other widespread outages after numerous previous hurricanes.

Less than a week after Hurricane Ida battered the Gulf Coast, President Joe Biden walked the streets of a hardhit Louisiana neighborhood on Friday and told local residents, “I know you’re hurting, I know you’re hurting.”

A massive fire tore through six homes in Jefferson Parish before crews eventually brought in pumps to fight the fire with water from the Bayou and from Ida’s floods.

Commercial flights have resumed in New Orleans and power has returned to parts of the business district in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.